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...Going to Pot" is an intricately contrived comedy in which everything finally ties together. An aspiring contractor for the French war department (he wants to supply every solider with a chamber pot) falls victim to a series of disasters that are all more-or-less the result of his young son's constipation. Follavoine, the contractor, is blessed with a wife. Julie, totally preoccupied with curing her son's problem with a dose of mineral oil, which the boy refuses to take. She manages, with her son's help, to destroy Follavoine's business with M. Chouilloux, the war ministry...
...contacts with Harvard professors, prestige, and credibility as a socially-conscious firm. And ADL is not "out of military contracting completely"; it no longer accepts government contracts for offensive weapons for use in Indochina, but the latest available figures show that ADL is still the fifth-largest military contractor in Cambridge (Harvard being fourth...
...committees advising the government on military strategy and technology. Fisher and Kistiakowsky are among the originators of the "automated battlefield" program which now blankers Indochina with blind, mechanized destruction. Harvey Brooks Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, is on the board of Raytheon, the largest military contractor in Massachusetts--and this is only the most glaring of numerous interlocks between the Harvard faculty and local warmakers...
ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL area is the confidentiality of university personnel files. HEW has demanded to see institutions' personnel records in order to check up on institutions or to investigate claims of discrimination. They base their right to see the files on a section of the executive order stating that the contractor must agree in writing to "permit access to his books, records and accounts" during normal business hours for "purposes of investigation to ascertain compliance with the equal opportunity clause...
...issue is over goals and timetables for tenured faculty. A clause in the revised order allows a contractor to get out of establishing goals if his affirmative action plan is otherwise complete and if he can "detail his reason for a lack of a goal." In a letter to the deans of the faculty dated Dec. 27, 1971, President Bok outlined his reasons for opposing goals for tenured faculty...